Are you so silly as to think the government runs massive coverup conspiracies... but wouldn't bother to load the news media with agents who would help it cover its ass?
If the USG wants to filter shit like that, they will, because the guy in charge will be a government agent, not some random normal citizen.
Jesus christ, you guys and your retarded half assed conspiracy theory. You come up with some outrageous crap that the government is capable of, and then think they'd fuck it up on some mundane detail that YOU figured out?
They pay people millions of dollars every year to sit around and figure out how to do spy shit... and your random 17 year old slashdotter thinks he figured it all out while working on his term paper.
What's your excuse for calling software which can be loaded onto flash memory a "rom" (Read Only Memory)?
Because the design is that it is read-only... updating it is a secondary feature, rarely used by normal people.
For practical purposes, its read-only. You aren't supposed to even be able to modify it under normal circumstances (this prevents bricking by some random malware)
What's your excuse for being so ridiculously obtuse?
WTF, Echelon was admitted to for fucks sake. You could claim it was misdirection, but pretending they were nut job conspiracy theories just shows your ignorance.
Seriously, camping out in the park in your Northface tent with your Northface jacket and backpack... thats trying? You've got to fucking be kidding me.
You have no idea what 'trying to make change' is apparently.
What's happening to Snowden is less about punishing him as it is scaring any future would-be whistleblowers. He already threw his previous life away by exposing illegal data mining, would he have done so if he thought he also wouldn't be able to get safe harbor anywhere else?
A real man would have, yes. A real man would have told the public, and stood proud and dared the government to treat him like a bitch for it, with the backing of the public to protect him.
What he did on the other hand was lie, broke contracts, ran out of the country, then started asking some of America's biggest Friemeies to protect him.
He's not a hero, he's a traitor.
Ghandi is a hero. Nelson Mandela is a hero. Martin Luther King was a hero. These men stood by their actions, with pride. These men changed the world. Snowden will just be another minor footnote in history that no one will remember in a couple years.
This guy is a douche like Assange who wants attention, guess what... he got it. And its not the attention he wanted, but its certainly the attention he deserves.
The only reason he's not on a 'train to NK' is because he's probably aware of what they do to traitors there after they've had their way with them.
Seriously? Do you have no fucking clue how cheap it is to run a website? Once you take away all the leeches using wikileaks to fund their own personal agendas, just posting shit on the Internet is fucking dirt cheap if you have a clue. A fucking torrent file so you don't have to spend as much on bandwidth and you're done.
I promise you I could pay for a year of running data distribution for wikileaks in one of my paychecks, without any help from anyone else, and I don't make that much.
You really need to get a clue and stop blindly believing these people are trying to look out for you.
Whats next, you'll start telling us that Jimmy Swaggart is an honest faith healer?
Canavero outlines a procedure modeled on successful head transplants which have been carried out in animals since 1970.
Bullshit. Cite one example of a successful head transplant, and by successful, I mean the animal actually lived on its own, without life support, for more than the time it takes for the heart to stop beating after having its head severed.
Even Google doesn't put ads on your Android homescreen.
Really? Do you own a Android device at all? The Nexus device home screens are one massive Google advertisement. They have 4 icons for the same fucking app, other apps have 2 or 3 on the home screen as well.
So you're just confused. They don't advertise for OTHERS on the home screen, they most certainly do advertise.
Theoretically, they could just magically repair the spinal cord with unicorn farts... and that is just as real as this story. The summary is a lie, its just a paper written about possibly doing it. No animal has ever had their head attached to another body and done anything other than die quickly.
Most humans are too stupid to realize the implications of longer life. We are ALREADY over populated and unsustainable. We use energy from the planet faster than it is stored. We REQUIRE this energy to support the population of humans on the planet that is WAY past the point of natural balance.
What exactly do you think will happen when people live twice as long? Do you think some other magical solution is going to pop up when lets us cram even more people into the same space.
We can not feed ourselves now, without oil, and the oil is being used ridiculously faster than its being created.
Except in reality, at no point has any animal actually had their head AND spinal cord attached to a new body. Its a theoretical paper, regardless of what the shitty summary implies.
ALL deaths are caused by heart failure. That is THE DEFINITION of when death occurs. Doesn't matter if your if your head gets chopped off, you're alive until your heart fails.
Just because someone working for your organization 50 years ago did something great doesn't mean anything anyone is doing there now is impressive.
Not saying that CERN isn't doing impressive things, but you seem to not understand that organizations are not universally made up of the same people you read a news story about 20 years ago.
As a systems architect, you'll be hard pressed to convience me that moving 65k cores and 30 petabytes of data to the cloud is intelligent. You will still need the same number of people to manage it, except now each core is going to cost twice as much, and you're now suddenly getting charged a bunch of fees that never existed before, and getting less performance.
If you pay for any reserved instance in the cloud, it costs far more than managing the same processing power yourself.
So? Thats called intelligent design. You write processor heavy code in a low level language by expensive developers that take longer amounts of time, then have someone else, who costs less and can do more 'visible' work faster using a high level language.
I suppose you think the major AAA title games engines are written by incompetent developers too then, right?
No it doesn't. 'Cloud' crap is for things that require variable processing power, so you can OCCASIONALLY spike to high loads, without having to build a massive infrastructure yourself for that 2 hours that the spike happens once a year.
CERN crunches massive amounts of data ALL THE TIME. There are no peaks and valleys, there is no benefit to letting someone else charge you extra to run your software in a reserved hypervisor instance. Its the exact opposite of efficiency.
You do not use virtual machines for real servers that require real processing. You use them for that shitty little project that doesn't require a full server, but for varying reasons you don't want to have consume a full server. A perfect instance is a web server for a small company or better still, some departments SharePoint server within your own organization.
Get a clue: You don't understand virtualized computing in the first place.
This is in no way a bad reflection on Microsoft, and is an entirely bad reflection on Mattrick. It just illustrates that he's a complete scumbag.
Going to work at Zynga as the CEO is not going to be a 'shitty' job. He's in charge, not one of the grunts stealing games from others and working 90 hour weeks.
It makes it clear that even Microsoft has some sort of moral standards, Mattrick isn't capable of living up to even those low standards, so he had to go run some other absolutely shitty company into the ground. Should be easy considering it was already well on its way before he became CEO.
I love when people post ignorant comparisons to 1984... which you clearly utterly missed the point.
We are nothing like 1984. 1984 reflects a society that willingly wanted the conditions told in the book to occur. That is no way the case in modern society, regardless of how your feeble thought process wants to pervert it. No one in modern society wants to be spied on.
Get some reading comprehension skills, or more likely, go actually read the book rather than spouting shit like you've read it and know what its about.
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God you're an idiot.
Are you so silly as to think the government runs massive coverup conspiracies ... but wouldn't bother to load the news media with agents who would help it cover its ass?
If the USG wants to filter shit like that, they will, because the guy in charge will be a government agent, not some random normal citizen.
Jesus christ, you guys and your retarded half assed conspiracy theory. You come up with some outrageous crap that the government is capable of, and then think they'd fuck it up on some mundane detail that YOU figured out?
They pay people millions of dollars every year to sit around and figure out how to do spy shit ... and your random 17 year old slashdotter thinks he figured it all out while working on his term paper.
So you've manually inspected the binaries from cyanogen to confirm that every release they make is 'safe'?
Instead of blindly trusting your manufacturer, you're blindly trusting a modder.
Not really sure why you think its different.
What's your excuse for calling software which can be loaded onto flash memory a "rom" (Read Only Memory)?
Because the design is that it is read-only ... updating it is a secondary feature, rarely used by normal people.
For practical purposes, its read-only. You aren't supposed to even be able to modify it under normal circumstances (this prevents bricking by some random malware)
What's your excuse for being so ridiculously obtuse?
WTF, Echelon was admitted to for fucks sake. You could claim it was misdirection, but pretending they were nut job conspiracy theories just shows your ignorance.
Occupy was trying?
Seriously, camping out in the park in your Northface tent with your Northface jacket and backpack ... thats trying? You've got to fucking be kidding me.
You have no idea what 'trying to make change' is apparently.
What's happening to Snowden is less about punishing him as it is scaring any future would-be whistleblowers. He already threw his previous life away by exposing illegal data mining, would he have done so if he thought he also wouldn't be able to get safe harbor anywhere else?
A real man would have, yes. A real man would have told the public, and stood proud and dared the government to treat him like a bitch for it, with the backing of the public to protect him.
What he did on the other hand was lie, broke contracts, ran out of the country, then started asking some of America's biggest Friemeies to protect him.
He's not a hero, he's a traitor.
Ghandi is a hero. Nelson Mandela is a hero. Martin Luther King was a hero. These men stood by their actions, with pride. These men changed the world. Snowden will just be another minor footnote in history that no one will remember in a couple years.
This guy is a douche like Assange who wants attention, guess what ... he got it. And its not the attention he wanted, but its certainly the attention he deserves.
The only reason he's not on a 'train to NK' is because he's probably aware of what they do to traitors there after they've had their way with them.
Harassed to extinction?
Seriously? Do you have no fucking clue how cheap it is to run a website? Once you take away all the leeches using wikileaks to fund their own personal agendas, just posting shit on the Internet is fucking dirt cheap if you have a clue. A fucking torrent file so you don't have to spend as much on bandwidth and you're done.
I promise you I could pay for a year of running data distribution for wikileaks in one of my paychecks, without any help from anyone else, and I don't make that much.
You really need to get a clue and stop blindly believing these people are trying to look out for you.
Whats next, you'll start telling us that Jimmy Swaggart is an honest faith healer?
Because this should make it pretty fucking clear.
Canavero outlines a procedure modeled on successful head transplants which have been carried out in animals since 1970.
Bullshit. Cite one example of a successful head transplant, and by successful, I mean the animal actually lived on its own, without life support, for more than the time it takes for the heart to stop beating after having its head severed.
Guess what ... its NEVER happened.
Even Google doesn't put ads on your Android homescreen.
Really? Do you own a Android device at all? The Nexus device home screens are one massive Google advertisement. They have 4 icons for the same fucking app, other apps have 2 or 3 on the home screen as well.
So you're just confused. They don't advertise for OTHERS on the home screen, they most certainly do advertise.
Theoretically, they could just magically repair the spinal cord with unicorn farts ... and that is just as real as this story. The summary is a lie, its just a paper written about possibly doing it. No animal has ever had their head attached to another body and done anything other than die quickly.
The paper is theoretical.
Its never actually been done. The summary is a lie. No animal spinal cords have been reattached and actually worked.
Never take any article approved by timothy as having any truth what so ever. He's an idiot by every known definition of the word.
You are an example of why it shouldn't happen.
Most humans are too stupid to realize the implications of longer life. We are ALREADY over populated and unsustainable. We use energy from the planet faster than it is stored. We REQUIRE this energy to support the population of humans on the planet that is WAY past the point of natural balance.
What exactly do you think will happen when people live twice as long? Do you think some other magical solution is going to pop up when lets us cram even more people into the same space.
We can not feed ourselves now, without oil, and the oil is being used ridiculously faster than its being created.
Sure, in theory.
Except in reality, at no point has any animal actually had their head AND spinal cord attached to a new body. Its a theoretical paper, regardless of what the shitty summary implies.
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ALL deaths are caused by heart failure. That is THE DEFINITION of when death occurs. Doesn't matter if your if your head gets chopped off, you're alive until your heart fails.
Really? What artificial knee has out lasted the average human lifespan?
Yet no one has designed an industrial pump that can perform at the level the heart does ... with the energy usage a heart has, for as long as it has.
So in short, no, no they haven't made something 'better' than a human heart in any way.
Show me a 120 year old unserviced pump please.
C++ via GCC is inefficient, pretty much every other compiler I've ever worked with does well.
Stop using shitty compilers and you'll find the language not so inefficient.
Branching? You do realize GPUs absolutely suck ass at any sort of branch right? So ... say ... anything except raw number crunching, sucks on a GPU.
Go ahead and write a search algorithm that runs solely on GPUs ... then watch it get out performed by an Arduino.
Just because someone working for your organization 50 years ago did something great doesn't mean anything anyone is doing there now is impressive.
Not saying that CERN isn't doing impressive things, but you seem to not understand that organizations are not universally made up of the same people you read a news story about 20 years ago.
As a systems architect, you'll be hard pressed to convience me that moving 65k cores and 30 petabytes of data to the cloud is intelligent. You will still need the same number of people to manage it, except now each core is going to cost twice as much, and you're now suddenly getting charged a bunch of fees that never existed before, and getting less performance.
If you pay for any reserved instance in the cloud, it costs far more than managing the same processing power yourself.
So? Thats called intelligent design. You write processor heavy code in a low level language by expensive developers that take longer amounts of time, then have someone else, who costs less and can do more 'visible' work faster using a high level language.
I suppose you think the major AAA title games engines are written by incompetent developers too then, right?
No it doesn't. 'Cloud' crap is for things that require variable processing power, so you can OCCASIONALLY spike to high loads, without having to build a massive infrastructure yourself for that 2 hours that the spike happens once a year.
CERN crunches massive amounts of data ALL THE TIME. There are no peaks and valleys, there is no benefit to letting someone else charge you extra to run your software in a reserved hypervisor instance. Its the exact opposite of efficiency.
You do not use virtual machines for real servers that require real processing. You use them for that shitty little project that doesn't require a full server, but for varying reasons you don't want to have consume a full server. A perfect instance is a web server for a small company or better still, some departments SharePoint server within your own organization.
Get a clue: You don't understand virtualized computing in the first place.
This is in no way a bad reflection on Microsoft, and is an entirely bad reflection on Mattrick. It just illustrates that he's a complete scumbag.
Going to work at Zynga as the CEO is not going to be a 'shitty' job. He's in charge, not one of the grunts stealing games from others and working 90 hour weeks.
It makes it clear that even Microsoft has some sort of moral standards, Mattrick isn't capable of living up to even those low standards, so he had to go run some other absolutely shitty company into the ground. Should be easy considering it was already well on its way before he became CEO.
I love when people post ignorant comparisons to 1984 ... which you clearly utterly missed the point.
We are nothing like 1984. 1984 reflects a society that willingly wanted the conditions told in the book to occur. That is no way the case in modern society, regardless of how your feeble thought process wants to pervert it. No one in modern society wants to be spied on.
Get some reading comprehension skills, or more likely, go actually read the book rather than spouting shit like you've read it and know what its about.
My god, that joke is so ridiculously tired. Its been freaking YEARS, come up with some new material. Its not funny.